Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

That which is morally wrong will never be politically right.

Conscience gets a lot of credit that really belongs to cowardice.

I never condemn wrongdoing in any area.

With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness; for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve wrong.

I'm not saying you did the wrong thing. I'm not even saying it wasn't something I'd thought of doing, myself. But even if it was the just thing to do, or the fitting thing, it still wasn't the right thing.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people.

Relationships do not preclude issues of morality.

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!

Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

There is no right in acting.

You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

I try not to do anything that's immoral.

Conscience? Great souls do not worry themselves with such little details

I have learned that a clear conscience, or a legal opinion, does not make you ethically bullet proof.

What is done cannot be effaced. We have to act upon a moral field prepared for us ...

Basic moral values must therefore first be internalized in the hearts and minds of its people before we can hope to enforce legislation reflecting these values